Posted on 04/09/2014 7:34:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
1. Dress up a little
2. Get rid of saggy pants and gangsta looks
3. Either lose the excess weight or dress to camouflage it
4. Dress age-appropriate
5. Get the best dental care you can afford
6. Stop combing over or wearing hairpieces—embrace the bald.
7. Don’t wear stuff not appropriate to your station in life, cowboy boots if you’re not a cowboy, yachting caps if you don’t have a yacht. Unless you’re in a band. Then you can pretty much do anything.
8. Cut back on the piercings, especially those ugly ear pegs and big fake diamonds. No tongue piercing.
9. Cut back on the Axe. Don’t wear heavier fragrance than you want women to wear. Consider Old Spice—it worked for Grandpa.
9. No nail polish. But clip your finger and toenails as needed.
10. Generally avoid meterosexual stuff. The further into the heartland you get, the more you avoid it.
11. Get a decent haircut.
12. Get a haircut.
13. Get your hair out of your face.
14. For Gods sake, don’t dye your hair weird colors. If you’re in flyover country, don’t dye your hair at all.
15. Think before ink. Old-fashioned women may still associate a lot of tattoos with somebody who did time.
16. Don’t buy all your clothes at thrift stores. And if you do, don’t brag a out it.
17. Only wear shorts when it’s really warm.
18. Don’t wear sandals year round.
19. Try to have shoes and boots in good condition, polished, reheeled, whatever they need.
20. Don’t wear a big heavy coat in summer and consider taking your hat off indoors.
These are off the top of my head. I’ll probably think of more later.
Women in my family felt so lucky to have indoor plumbing, we didnt fuss about stuff like that.
I thought of two more.
21. Foot hygiene is so very important. If at all possible don’t wear the same shoes every day and air your shoes. If you always take showers instead of baths, make a special point of soaking or scrubbing feet. Wear clean socks of course, and if necessary, use foot deodorant, cornstarch, etc.
22. Facial hair. I pluck mine. Yours is your business. It’s personal. It’s cultural. It can even be religious. But don’t have food in it.
Well, “don’t spend more than I earn” doesn’t go over well either.
And she can always manage to spend more.
Very few are inherently incapable of earning their way and enough to support a family. It’s usually a matter of will.
I recall a guy (patient my then gf was caring for) who was absolutely bedridden yet managed to run an ... er ... unlicensed pharmesutical distribution operation from his bed. My job requires no physical capability beyond interacting with a computer; just thinking can be profitable. Most anyone can be useful to society if they choose to; ours is very supportive of the disabled.
Cold hard reality is that it’s hard to survive when one can’t work and the other is preoccupied with offspring. If one of you two can’t earn enough to support a family, and the other can’t care for kids, don’t get into a situation likely to make one.
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